Author Archives: Sharon Roberts, editor

CHARLOTTE – Charlotte ranks sort of middling among 100 best and worst cities for an active lifestyle, according to WalletHub. But the Queen City beats the Under Armour off Detroit for the number of fitness trainers and aerobics instructors per ...

CHARLOTTE –Valerie Mitchener, the owner and broker-in-charge of HM Properties, announced she is buying a 7,000-square-foot building at 6857 Fairview Road in the Colony on Fairview II office complex across from Phillips Place in SouthPark. After the closing in mid-January, ...

CHARLOTTE – Charlotte-based new homebuilder Eastwood Homes recently presented more than $47,000 to Levine Children’s Hospital, donations it raised during an October charity golf outing at Raintree Country Club. “Thanks to our sponsors, we have been able to raise more ...

Charlotte ranks fifth among regions with the most homes sold to institutional investors between January 2012 and August, but so far the equity gained in those homes trails behind six of the regions in the top 10, according to real ...

A Myrtle Beach, S.C., man was sentenced Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his role, along with a Charlotte man, in a Ponzi scheme that the U.S. Attorney’s office said defrauded would-be investors out of more than $2 ...

“Christmas Town” in McAdenville ranks as the nation’s second-best neighborhood in which to see holiday lights, according to real estate brokerage Redfin. The company polled its real estate agents, whom they said are “the ultimate neighborhood experts” because of the ...

CHARLOTTE – Four officials from GoodSports Enterprise attended a City Council committee meeting Wednesday to assure members that they are committed to building an amateur sports complex on Independence Boulevard. They also said that in the past week they have ...

MARVIN – The Village of Marvin’s Council met last week with representatives of 505 Design and Regency Centers in preliminary discussions over Regency’s plans to bring a neighborhood retail center, including a Publix, and town houses to the corner of ...

CHARLOTTE – The U.S. Attorney’s Office on Wednesday filed a motion seeking the dismissal of the 28 charges remaining against Boggs Paving Inc., the Monroe-based company that has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the federal government on road construction ...